"One can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age I always did it for one half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-Lewis Carrol "Through the Looking Glass"

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

VIII - Morality

1) (True/False)
It is self-righteous to insist on standards that it is harder from some groups
to meet than others

2) Morality is:

a) A cultural system for incremental
judgment of certain behaviors within a society

b) A system of values taught in a church

c) The
system of humanist values taught in public schools

d) A
system of values and beliefs that causes conflict and serves no purpose

e) A
system of values and beliefs that is based on superstition

f) A system that can easily be articulated
and applied categorically by laws

g) A trade-off of individual freedom to
share in benefits enjoyed by the whole group

h) An
archaic system of beliefs that should be abandoned

3) Acts of personal immoral behavior
should be not be judged by others because

a)
Everybody is doing it

b) It is a
result of Media Conglomerates stressing sexual themes and products

c)
There can be no meaningful definition of morality in a multicultural society

d) Such
judgments serve no societal purpose

4) Which of the following should be left
to a persons own conscience because they have no effect on others or society at
large:

a)
Adultery

b)
Pre-marital sex

c)
Abortion

d)
Children born out of wedlock

e)
Access to pornography

f)
Who and how old your sex partner is

g) How much you earn

h) How many and which types of risky endeavors
you are willing to attempt

i) How you parent

5) Examples of an Epidemic are :

a)
Teen-age pregnancies

b) Drug
use

c)
AIDS

d) Crime

e)
Any disease that has spread throughout the population

f)
Any deliberate behavior that leads to a negative result can be alleviated via a
government program

6) Religion

a)
Is useless because it has failed to solve all of the worlds problems

b) Is the refuge
of the ignorant, the superstitious, and the stupid

c)
Is bad because it can be used by fanatics for evil purposes

d) Helps to sets standards of behavior that are
required for a functioning society and the production of good citizens, but
which are too difficult to enforce by articulated categorical laws

7) A “stigma” is

a) The result empirical knowledge of
typical behavior that has detrimental effects on others

b) Social retaliation for behavior that has
harmed or endangered others

c) Deterrence for those who engage in
detrimental behavior in the absence of stigmas

d) The
result of arbitrary and narrow-minded bigotry and prejudice

8) A “stigma” is attached to the word
“liberal” because

a) Liberals advocate policies that inflict
costs on others with no or little cost to themselves

b) Liberal Policies often have detrimental
impacts in other areas of life because their solutions are really “trade-offs”

c) Liberal Policies tend to be implemented
in terms of 3rd party decision making that reduces the choices of
individuals

d)
Republicans are fullof arbitrary
and narrow-minded bigotry and prejudice